Los Angeles: NASA`s decade-old Mars rover Opportunity has set a new off-Earth, off-road distance record, logging just over 25 miles (40 km) on the surface of the Red Planet to surpass the benchmark set in 1973 by a Russian probe on the moon.
Opportunity, which arrived on Mars in January 2...

Washington: NASA and its international partners get the go-ahead to start construction on a new Mars lander after it completed a successful Mission Critical Design Review on Friday.
The mission will investigate how Earth-like planets formed and developed their layered inner structure of c...

Washington: Researchers have developed a new portable device that promises a greener future by readily analysing the composition of gases, solids and liquids using the light they emit.
Space scientist Hugh Mortimer and his partner Jolyon Tidmarsh`s invention was originally designed to fly...

Chennai: India`s ambitious maiden inter- planetary voyage Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), launched in November last year, has covered over 21 million km and as of today is exactly 200 days away from reaching the red planet`s orbit on September 24.
The MOM probe was travelling with a helio...

Beijing: China has the ability to explore Mars and it is up to the government to decide when to send a probe to land on the Red Planet`s surface, a top Chinese scientist said today.
China has the capability of exploring Mars, Ye Peijian, a top scientist with the the country`s lunar probe...

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New Delhi: After successfully launching the Mars Orbiter Mission, India is now gearing up for its next expedition to the Sun. India will send a multi-million dollar mission to probe the Sun by 2020,as reported by a space official. This maiden mission to the sun is titled ...

Melbourne: UFO Sightings Daily author Scott Waring has claimed that the grainy digital pictures of Mercury show recently built structures.
He said that the structures are without breaks or fissures and clean with no dirt of dust blanketing them over time, which reveals that they are occup...

Bangalore: India`s first inter-planetary probe Mars Orbiter Spacecraft will be completing 100 days in space tomorrow in its voyage towards the red planet.
The health of the spacecraft, launched by the country`s workhorse rocket PSLV-C25 on November 5 last from Satish Dhawan Space Centre a...

Washington: The United States and France have unveiled plans to collaborate on a new Mars mission, two years after NASA withdrew from a European partnership to send a probe and lander to the Red Planet.
The project aims to send an unmanned lander to study the deep interior of the dry, du...

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New Delhi: India`s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, is in good health, on track, and is at a distance of 14.4 million kms from Earth.
The ISRO Facebook site on the Mars mission reads: “Another 233 days for MOM (Mars Orbiter Mission) t...

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New Delhi: A photo of the Earth taken by the Mars Orbiter probe has been posted by the Indian Space Research Organisation on its Facebook page on Thursday.
The photo includes most of the Indian Peninsula, Tibet, the Middle East, parts of north-eastern Africa, the Arabian...

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Sriharikota: The third of the five orbit raising manoeuvres of Mars Orbiter spacecraft has been successfully completed early Saturday, the Indian Space Research Organisation said.
The manoeuvre, which began at 02:10:43 hrs (IST), raised the apogee from 40186 kms to 71636...

London: Mars Express made its closest fly-by yet of Red Planet`s moon, Phobos, skimming past at only 45 km above its surface, on Dec. 29.
However, the probe is going too fast to click images of the irregularly shaped moon that is 15 miles wide, the Daily Express reported.

Washington: NASA`s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed to scientists slender dark markings - possibly due to salty water - which may force them to rethink their plans about future explorations of the Red Planet.
Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson, principal investig...

The Curiosity rover has found evidence of an ancient lake on Mars that millions of years ago could have sustained life for long periods of time, NASA said. "Quite honestly, it just looks very Earth-like," the lead scientist of the Curiosity mission, John Grotzinger of the California Inst...

New Delhi: Indian companies that built most of the parts for the country`s recently launched Mars mission are using their low-cost, high-tech expertise in frugal space engineering to compete for global aerospace, defence and nuclear contracts worth billions.
India`s Mangalyaan spacecraft ...